Big Malware Advertising Campaign Unraveled

Malwarebytes claims to have exposed one of the largest advertising campaigns to malware of recent months. With the campaign large numbers of visitors were redirected to websites casino while their computers were infected with malware.

The campaign focused on visitors somewhat questionable websites including torrents, live streams of the latest movies and pirated software. Some ads that were on those sites, visitors automatically sent by (without having to click on the ad) to one of the casino sites.

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These sites were used as a diversion while there were loaded onto the background iframes variety of domains, which ultimately caused the Angler exploit kit to the victim was installed. Since this week would also Neutrino exploit kit can be used.

The ad campaign would be launched on October 21 and have lasted at least three weeks. That it took so long is, according Malwarebytes because both visitors and administrators of the dubious torrent sites had little need to report abuse, since they themselves were engaged in illegal content.

According SimilarWeb, a service that collects and analyzes data on website traffic, these ad networks generated in October visit more than two billion.

Flash Player Vulnerabilities Ever Attacked Quickly After Patch

Vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player are getting faster attacked after the release of a patch, which increases the pressure on users to install available updates as soon as possible. On April 14, patched a critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that could allow attackers the underlying computer in the worst case can take over completely if a malicious or hacked website is visited or appear infected ads.

Only three days later, on April 17, there appeared an exploit that allows the vulnerability abuse. The exploit was added to the Angler-exploit kit, making all kinds of cyber criminals have access. By cyber criminals exploit kits can easily Internet attacks by placing on hacked websites iframes and JavaScript, pointing to the exploit kit. In case users do not patched malware can be installed on the computer.

There has been a trend in which leaks in Flash Player, after the release of an update, still attacked quickly. On the basis of the updates, the attackers can find out where exactly is the vulnerability and develop an exploit here. A development that reveals security experts worry, says security firm FireEye . The observed now operates first look at the user's system and then determines whether a parent or Tuesday patched vulnerability to be attacked. What kind of malware is distributed via the new exploit is unknown.